I was sorting through some pictures I took of my art journals when I came across a picture of an art journal project I did years ago. I remembered how much I loved the result that I decided to turn that picture into a fun creative post. Here are the simple steps to recreate my experiment. I use watercolours for these...

Whenever I feel stuck creatively, or if I just need a fun challenge, I fill up a scrap journal, usually with poetry and doodles, but sometimes I feel like glueing in stuff, so I do that. Creating scrap journals is such a fantastic creativity booster, they never fail to inspire me to keep creating. Want to make one too?...

One of the greatest creative joys these days is that I have started using my pen and paper sketchbook again. I'm mostly doodling animals I saw at the zoo a week ago. And I love it. These couple minutes sketching are the best part of my day sometimes. And I don't mind failing. I've started a doodle of my husband and the...

I spent my day today as I do every day: I went to my desk and created. I worked in art journals, painted, played with oil pastels and soft pastels, the works. It's baffling to me that it took me THIS long to follow my heart, and that it took getting REALLY sick to focus on making art. But I create now, I live like an...

I have grown all out of focus with blogging. I have many reasons why I have, but no good reason why I haven't started to blog again. Is it because I'm afraid of my thoughts? They are a tad dark at times, even though I do not want them to be. But I do not struggle. I just make art. Art I really love, full of wildness....

I tend to (over)complicate things. When I’m not feeling well, even more so. I also tend to overthink things, which is a great way to describe procrastination, for me. Instead of writing. I spend hours pondering characters and their actions, only writing something late at night to be able to check off my daily writing...

A bit of play with water soluble wax crayons in my art journal today. This kind of thing makes me so happy.